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Zaporizhzhia strike capped days of Black Sea attacks
Summary
A retrospective on 9 August 2023, when a Russian missile hit a residential area as Ukraine pressed attacks on Russian-held targets in the south.
What did 9 August 2023 show about the war's southern front? A Russian missile strike on a residential area of Zaporizhzhia killed at least two people and injured seven others, in an attack on civilians that came after several days of Ukrainian strikes on Russian assets around Crimea and the Black Sea.
The strike on Zaporizhzhia
At least two people died and seven were wounded when the missile struck homes in the city on 9 August 2023. The attack was recorded among the Russian strikes on civilians during the full-scale invasion.
The preceding days
The days before the Zaporizhzhia strike had seen a run of Ukrainian attacks on Russian military and shipping targets.
On 4 August 2023, a Ukrainian naval drone attack damaged the Russian landing ship Olenegorsky Gornyak at the naval base at the Port of Novorossiysk in Krasnodar Krai.
On 5 August 2023, Ukraine said it had damaged the Russian tanker Sig in a naval drone attack in the Black Sea near the Crimean Bridge.
On 6 August 2023, a missile of the Armed Forces of Ukraine damaged a bridge over the Chonhar Strait. The bridge connects Russian-occupied Kherson Oblast with Crimea. The strike was reported as part of the 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive.
A snapshot of the week
Taken together, the reports from 4 to 9 August 2023 show Ukrainian forces hitting a warship, a tanker and a crossing between occupied Kherson Oblast and Crimea. They also show Russian missiles continuing to land on residential districts, with Zaporizhzhia the place named on 9 August 2023.
